Next year will be Liverpool’s year, just like every year was going to be

Liverpool have released their new kit for the 2016/17 season, and it has brought a new wave of hope.

The 2015/16 campaign was more or less a wash from the get-go, with Jurgen Klopp given licence to determine his best team in the knowledge that anything beyond consolidation would be a bonus. And that bonus has arrived in the form of two cup finals and a chance of Champions League football returning to Anfield if the club can defeat perennial Europa League winners Sevilla in Basel on May 18. https://twitter.com/SportsJOEdotie/status/729786072897589249 When combined with the symbolic new leaf of a shiny new kit, Reds fans are daring to dream.

Of course, the 'next year will be our year' sentiment is nothing new.

https://twitter.com/enriquejsalazar/status/19628032336

So much so that it was the subject of mockery as long ago as 2010.

https://twitter.com/WillNicholsEsq/status/18916940307

That didn't stop it continuing in 2011/12...

https://twitter.com/myomonaija/status/107508549256626176

2012/13...

https://twitter.com/EnamDarknight/status/236762201216675840

And 2013/14.

https://twitter.com/kurt6388/status/371927889530208257 https://twitter.com/Dking139/status/371341975661707265

Although it had begun to get a little tongue-in-cheek by then.

https://twitter.com/JohnM75/status/368745573953724416

After the second-place finish in 2014 there was cause for optimism last season.

https://twitter.com/conorhawkins17/status/500966334185107456 https://twitter.com/Heinrich_90/status/500959368670883840

But it was too much to expect more of the same this season. Oh, wait.

https://twitter.com/RKT_YNWA/status/636940005072609280

You can't fault their optimism.

https://twitter.com/josh_fairburn98/status/728329446281912322